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Last week, weary but still getting along famously together, the students haunted Hong Kong like gimleteyed inspectors general. After morning classes, they visited refugee housing projects, a noodle factory for the needy, several island fishing villages. They showed up at a Hindu wedding, wandered through a Macao gam bling casino...
His tightest-packed briefing of the week came from three veteran, well-prepared briefing officers: Son John, Press Secretary Jim Hagerty and Appointments Secretary Tom Stephens, all just back from riding the presidential jet over the whole 22,370-mile route. For two hours they went over the schedule in...
Chairman of the Committee of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Georgy Zhukov, 51, is a dandified Ukrainian who worked as Pravda foreign correspondent in France and Geneva after World War II; his influence has risen since 1957 by dint of his handling of the people-to-people exchange program; he...
17 Sources, 17 Reports. Government officials were uniformly unhelpful. Not that they did not try-in a land with little or no communications, they were merely uninformed. When one freshly arrived newsman asked Defense Minister Sounthone Pathammavong for a quick briefing on the situation, the minister shot him an injured...
The Associated Press' cigar-chewing Forrest Edwards, rose during one press briefing to complain that 17 different government spokesmen had given him 17 separate reports. "What do you expect?" Minister of Information Sisouk Na Champassak replied accurately. "If you speak to 17 different people, of course you'll...